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About Letterkenny

Letterkenny, Leitir Ceanainn in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 202 km north-west of Dublin, with 19,274 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N13, N56 and R229. The map gives it 12,795 buildings and 156 named streets, with 328 places named on them in 122 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
19,274 at the 2016 census
Where
202 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.9518° N, 7.7354° W, 52 m above sea level
Area
47.76 km²
Roads
N13, N56, R229, R250, R940, L1006 and L1164
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
12,795 buildings, 156 streets, 328 named places in 122 kinds

Letterkenny in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1854 to 2017. That is not a history of Letterkenny, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18542017Loreto Secondary School LetterkennyRockhill House
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century
  • 2017Rockhill HouseHotels · 3.3 km from the centre · cultural property

County Donegal since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

296,448108,344167,08418412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 63 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N13, N56, R229, R250, R940, L1006 and L1164 running through Letterkenny. 39 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

22 lines call at 17 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

10 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Letterkenny?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 202 km north-west of Dublin and 202 km from Dublin, on the N13, N56 and R229.
How big is Letterkenny?
19,274 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 12,795 buildings and 156 named streets.
What is there to see in Letterkenny?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Famine Memorial Garden, Letterkenny Tourist Information Centre and Donegal County Museum.
How do you get to Letterkenny?
22 bus and train lines call at 17 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and Doherty's Travel.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
12,795
buildings on the model
156
named streets
328
named places
122
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q952497). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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